Liverpool John Moores University3 June 2014

#MELSIGLJMU@melsiguk

Andrew MiddletonSheffield Hallam UniversityChair of MELSIG

Social Media for Learning #1

http://melsig.shu.ac.uk/

Welcome to the 21st event

Media-Enhanced Learning Special Interest Group

• Digital and social media

• Together

• Sharing practice

• Generating ideas

• Asking questions

• Ideas and risky thinking

• Innovation and change

Social Media for Learning

•Connectivity – always on

•Personal - not institutional?

•Authentic and ubiquitous – ever-present like 'intelligent clothing'

•Changing the learning context and the learning environment

•How?

•Today: diverse experience and interests

•Developing an online resource together

(cc) ) by sa Saad Faruque

Digital Voices

•Representing the MELSIG ethos

•How the recorded voices of teachers, students, employers, professionals and many others can change and enhance learning

•Essays, case studies and 50 ideas

•24 authors from UK post-compulsory education

•Now free to download

Coming up…

•Social Media for Learning event – University of Sussex 9th September

•Media Enhanced Feedback event #2

•Inclusivity event

•Creative Capture and Flipped Classroom event

•#BYOD4L – take 2 (wb 14 July 2014)

•Online resource

•New book call – “Smart Learning”

(cc) by nc Incessant Flux

Finally…

#MELSIGLJMU

• Thank you LJMU! – Alex Spiers

• Open Badges – thanks Ellie Livermore

• Challenges and Opportunities